Interview with Jay Bishoff: Post Bali Bomb tourist-part VI

Jay: One more thing that I love about this place that came to mind. My wife Debbie and I have done a lot of research on different religions and have read Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith, experts on comparative mythologies. Their work looks for common themes in religions around the world and also the unique aspects.

We were really looking into that and decided when we traveled we didn't just want to go to churches, temples, Buddhists wats, Indian ashrams. We decided we didn't want to do it that way. We just wanted to be in the country, because I believe okay if America was fundamentally Christian, India is fundamentally Hindu, Thailand is Buddhist, Indonesia is primarily Muslim, with Bali which is this bizarre and wonderful exception. We sort of thought you get into a country and just feel it on the streets. You should be able to feel Hinduism in an exchange in the market that was our attitude. Why do I have to go to the temple to experience the religion? If it's working in the people you'll know what that religion does. What that spiritually is, if it's living you will feel it in the marketplace. You don't have to go church that was our attitude.